Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-02-12


5eaash4n Saith. from Minneesss
shassd q iik4Is rrorNrty en- O street. Ga
Wednesday LAST IL arrived u he risy
I with his wife and family ard has settled
down 20 sfsy. Yesterday. II eanpnny
With Col. j. H. Steele. h rods cut &
SfeiIaeoom 70 look q soms psoperty %
Ch2mh<Kss creek the Ioe4aion Of ths
old axis& mill. ThsEe Il a. exeelisni
fall sfosdfng ampls safsr poser e ths
| place, and NJ. santa vas apearently
mach pleased with H. He Gays Il = his
parpsss - put ~ woolen mill Il AL
Roes yell.
RACK HReM TIE su11Mx5.
d. James h Hap6urn's sign formeriy
sWaEx il the breeze that chased up and
down Ntath street. Tie yoanz deetos
vas 3 regular attendants at ahs claw
hummer cost Eeoepaiona as pArior v. 81
the Tae0ms. a. that time. bat enc day
hs w4a missed fFo@ hls accustomed
h4unts. and while bic friends hefe wers
uondsring What bad bse1ms Of him.
Jim Blaine, bo0k-kespox fer Nelson Ben
nett at flannel City Tan old Taeams iiel
was oEercons By surpsfss st mestinG
him there. Blaine could not Be blamed
for being surprised. for 1unEei City
when HepbnFn arrived. was The toughesi
piacs on the entire facs Of the Rlobe,
and the association Of q claw hammer
recepsion with il Ia all ifs unrestzainsd
wickedness. Ues eno0gh 10 sh0ek any
body. But Hepburn walked up the
main street betzeea the ross OF poker
games and paraiYsed bis friend BY an
nouncinz thai be had eome 10 stay. He
even did much worse than that. He
stayed He put MP tent and then his
slgn - peacticing physician, and To-
day ~ ehe streets Of Tacoma, where be
appsared for the hrst time since mis- ex-
csntrie move. be tells Of having met
with wonderfui success, and ef deter
mlnatlon to return an Monday TO she
mountain Businesses. Concerning the
woIk going on there be says; ~There is
bus little woEk going on at the summit
0utside the tunnel. The snow was
eiRhteen feet when came over and
fully t90 feet has fallen since, -
stopped at Hot Springs. They are still
laying track on each side Of tbs noun
tain from the present ends OF the track.
but tbs snow makes the progress slow.
IL fell too fast for them on the sBmmit
and compelled q suspension Of work.
a1o t1o great Iuttf-tCut Gus S1fooGo
Stampede Pass has drifted 10 level.
Beside all this, the doctor entertains bis
friends vita an account of many hair
breadth escapes, personally, OF being
ovsFIaken By snow while crossing the
summit; Of his giving mp in despair be-
cause Of his inability plunge through
the drifts; Of his lying down IN the snow
and. while in thai position, conceivin0
the idea OF rolling down the mountain
side and of his successfully reaching
Tunnel City. = distance Of mile and
half, By thRt means. He also tells of
having walked from Tunnel City to
EllensbarR, a distances Of fifty-two
miles, in eight hours. Sam Collins has
q bic pair OF irrepressibis mules with
ghieh be used 70 drive the distance In
6uckboard, carrying the mail for the
engineers corps, before the rails ex-
tended past EllensbaER, and be Was very
proud when be accomplished the dis
tanoe within eleven no rs-henee this
feat of DIR. Hepbarn's Is very rsmaFka-
bic. The doctor returns 10 Tunnel City
on Monday.